ResearchBuzz: FirehoseFlorida State University: Rare Emmett Till trial records donated to FSU Libraries. “Florida State University Libraries Special Collections & Archives has acquired a collection of rare legal documents donated by independent Emmett Till researchers Kevin Murphy and Colleen FitzPatrick.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/16/florida-state-university-rare-emmett-till-trial-records-donated-to-fsu-libraries/
📚🎧💙BargainSleuth Books +Framing Emmett Till: Exposing Dark Fear follows an anonymous Black writer as he investigates Emmett’s murder, where he confronts unresolved truths. --> #BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #FramingEmmettTill #AbramsComicArts #GraphicNovel #Netgalley #ARCReview #EmmettTill #CivilRightsMovement #Lynching
royalI've been listening to Wright Thompson's book The Barn. It's very hard to listen to, and an excellent book.
One thing led to another, and I found this snippet from the writer in an Atlantic article. As a southerner, I cannot tell you how biting and insightful this is.
Konstantin 1955 wurde der 14-jährige Emmett Till in Mississippi gelyncht, weil er einer weißen Frau angeblich nachgepfiffen hatte. Seine Mörder wurden freigesprochen. Seine Mutter zeigte seinen Körper in einem offenen Sarg – die Welt sah das Grauen. #EmmettTill #Bürgerrechte 2/
z_4narchistyes. the way language is used matters, especially when its being used as a weapon...
...when emmett till was murdered, they said "a black man was lynched"....but #emmetttill was a 14 year old boy. a child...who was brutally murdered and mutilated...for doing kid shit.
...the tyrants use words craftily to infantilize us as adults to manufacture an image of us as under or undeveloped that excuses our neglect, abuse, and enslavement by their hands....and then adultify our children to enforce an image that removes even the concept of our innocence or needs for protection that "allows" for them all manner of dehumanizing, cruel, and murderous acts against us...no matter our gender, age, or lack of wrongdoings...
...when emmett till was murdered, they said "a black man was lynched"....but #emmetttill was a 14 year old boy. a child...who was brutally murdered and mutilated...for doing kid shit.
...the tyrants use words craftily to infantilize us as adults to manufacture an image of us as under or undeveloped that excuses our neglect, abuse, and enslavement by their hands....and then adultify our children to enforce an image that removes even the concept of our innocence or needs for protection that "allows" for them all manner of dehumanizing, cruel, and murderous acts against us...no matter our gender, age, or lack of wrongdoings...
The USA PotatoMamie Till-Mobley Refused to Let Her Son, Emmett Till, Be Forgotten
A new anthology marking the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s murder aims to stir action against white supremacy.https://murica.website/2026/01/mamie-till-mobley-refused-to-let-her-son-emmett-till-be-forgotten/
George GarnerThe Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased the Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, thanks to a $1.5 million donation from Shonda Rhimes. The barn will be preserved as a sacred site and transformed into a public memorial by 2030. #EmmettTill #CivilRights #MississippiHistory https://mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/barn-emmett-till-sacred-site/
Andi ChorleyFreedom Highway is a 1965 album by The Staple Singers. The title song was written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights and reflects not only on the actions of the activists but what suffering they had endured to get there, even referencing the murder of Emmett Till at Tallahatchie River. The lyrics begin “March up freedom's highway / March, each and every day.” and continue “Made up my mind / And I won't turn around." Mavis Staples reprised the song in 2008 on Live: Hope at the Hideout, which was released on November 4, 2008, the same day that Barack Obama won the presidential election.
Staples, joined by Jeff Tweedy, performed "Freedom Highway" on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert at Chicago's Auditorium Theater on August 22, 2024, on the occasion of the closing night of the Democratic National Convention. - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZaCrcBaQI4&list=RDXZaCrcBaQI4&start_radio=1
#staplesingers #civilrightstruggle #emmetttill #selmatomontgomery #freedommarch #marvisstaples #gospel #soul #music
Wittgenstein's Monster📅 September 23, 1955
An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam for the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
Decades later, we remember Ahmaud Arbery, murdered while jogging in Georgia.
#Murder #EmmettTill #AhmaudArbery #ThisDayInHistory #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #Poetry #NeverForget #AbolishWhiteSupremacy
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